Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] was [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combined algorithm was called the Predictor-Corrector Algorithm ( PCA ) . |
| 2 | The Wensleydale-born man was elected the first president of the Society by those gathered in the watchmaker 's shop in 1835 and held that post until his death in 1858 . |
| 3 | The private company was assigned the task of monitoring its own operations , which we find unacceptable . |
| 4 | Once the indium-111 counting was completed the samples were stored for four to six weeks to allow decay of the indium-111 . |
| 5 | And Football League president Gordon McKeag said : ‘ When the Premier League was formed the FA said they would not sanction a second division . |
| 6 | The second group was told the title after they had read the passage , while the third group were not told the title at all . |
| 7 | In 1848 he became MRCS ( and soon became a fellow ‘ by examination ’ ) and in the following year was awarded the college 's triennial prize for an essay on the nerves of the eye . |
| 8 | In 1840 he was elected to the Institution of Civil Engineers and the following year was awarded the Institution 's Telford medal for his work on laminated arch design . |
| 9 | As the inevitable plaque was unveiled the final polish was applied . |
| 10 | The newborn boy was given the name of Philip . |
| 11 | ‘ When the first maypole was erected the Gawthorpe people regarded it as a sign of their independent spirit . ’ |
| 12 | They say that before the first human was born the seven celestial sisters — the Nymphs of the Pleiades — using their sarongs as wings , used to descend to a sacred pool in Bali to bathe naked in the waters of the world . |
| 13 | The 26-year-old woman was given the man 's shirt and towelling dressing gown to wear after her sex ordeal , police revealed yesterday . |
| 14 | Until the northern route was made the only road link between Applecross and the world outside lay over the notorious Bealach na Ba , a high and difficult pass attaining an elevation of 2000 feet ; a sore trial for a timid car driver . |
| 15 | There were two separate actions : disclosing the note and then informing on its author to the malais , though the young priest was doomed the moment he selected his man with his eyes . |
| 16 | The young dog was shot the next day . |
| 17 | The other duet was called the Sisters Iris . |
| 18 | In July it was disclosed that the Soviet Union was owed the equivalent of 87,500 million ( 25 per cent in convertible currencies ) , but much of this was believed to be for arms sales to poorer countries who were unable to repay it . |
| 19 | The new school was called the Tiller Training School and Lyric Academy . |
| 20 | Finally , early in 1982 , the new body was retitled the National Advisory Body ( NAB ) , thereby dropping the word ‘ Interim ’ from its title , and John Bevan , previously the Deputy Director of Education for the Inner London Education Authority , was appointed its secretary . |
| 21 | Beaumaris was the last and largest of the castles built by Edward I to contain the Welsh Begun in 1295 on a virgin site overlooking the Menai Strait , the new castle was given the French name of Beau Mareys ( Beautiful Marsh ) . |
| 22 | The new pope was given the name Innocent by the archdeacon and invested with the scarlet mantle which signified his pontificate . |
| 23 | The new regent was given the opportunity to determine a much more clear-cut policy than that of the 1540s . |
| 24 | The whole building was painted the frost white of cake icing and its shine echoed the gleam of the silent Thames behind . |
| 25 | And the whole thing was wrecked the whole the the erm the floors in each er flat was one big circle of stone er about er it would 've been about twelve |
| 26 | There had been no Darkness in the stranger , and Hawk recalled that one of the spirit warriors who would stand with the One-Eyed White Girl in the last battle was called the Man Who Rides Alone . |
| 27 | He returned to Los Angeles and then caught a plane to Europe where he had been invited to show the finished article at the Venice Film Festival at which The Last Movie was voted the best picture on exhibition . |
| 28 | The last meeting was given the figures up to 15 October 1991 . |
| 29 | Certainly the last letter was dated the beginning of August , that 's over a month ago . |